The domestic portrait with which it reconstructs fragments of Billingham's childhood and his dysfunctional family seems infinitely flat to me. Full review in Spanish

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 31, 2022

Even the presence of memory and the past show that no evil lasts forever. At least for Richard and Jason. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 9, 2021

Whilst it doesn't follow a concrete narrative, Ray & Liz is a moving portrayal of a family trying to stay above the poverty line.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2020

The film clearly demonstrates why Billingham's childhood has informed so much of his artistic career, but it proves a little harder to find a way to empathise with it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Despite failure to provide context of family dysfunction within the rust-belt of Black Country in Northern England, it is still a keenly-observed portrait of the director's own family.

| Feb 4, 2020

Curiously, in the hard domestic portrait that the director traces there is not a moment of rancor or bitterness. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Dec 2, 2019

If the subject all sounds like doom and gloom, Ray & Liz offsets its depressing subject matter through empathy and humour.

| Oct 30, 2019

Ray & Liz is one of those highly calculated movies... Everything is in the right place. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2019

The film is approached with the look of a poet. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 11, 2019

The fact it's so autobiographical and steeped in neglect and emotional abuse only makes "Ray & Liz" all that much compelling (and hard) to drink in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2019

Billingham has an ability to find poetry in what most would find monstrosity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2019

[Director Richard] Billingham's visual ingenuity is beyond doubt. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2019

The overall effect of "Ray & Liz" is something like early Terence Davies Gothic, the nostalgia of his post-war reminisces of working class Liverpool replaced with the cold harshness of Thatcher's England, yet just as eerily beautiful.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 22, 2019

What distinguishes "Ray & Liz" is its ability to find strange tonal nuances within that terrible sadness; bleak as it is, it's remarkably devoid of bitterness or rancor, and even its most despairing passages are flecked with humor and hope.

| Jul 20, 2019

Billingham's famous photos are tough-minded and emotionally painful, silent by virtue of their medium. And his live-action version offers a similar experience.

| Jul 19, 2019

An epiphany-free zone.

| Original Score: 3/3 | Jul 16, 2019

Gorgeously photographed on 16mm, Richard Billingham's Ray and Liz counters the grubby, quasi-authentic tenets of so-called British miserablism with humor, beauty, and a sensuality that in no way dilutes the hardships and neglect at its core

| Jul 15, 2019

Brought to life by the gorgeous visual experimentation of cinematographer Daniel Landin and anchored by the matriarchal fury of Ella Smith's unassailable performance, Ray & Liz is a captivating depiction of genuine tragedy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 12, 2019

We often say art "cuts close to the bone," but in its depiction of clinking liquor bottles and drawers of unopened rent notices soaked in dog urine, Ray & Liz slices clean through that bone.

| Jul 12, 2019

Performed with absolute commitment by its cast (Justin Salinger and Ella Smith play the younger versions of the title characters), "Ray & Liz" is a quietly harrowing movie.

| Jul 11, 2019